Sliding it to the left will result in more changes in shorter periods an thus making it wilder.

Slide it more to the right and it will change at a more subtile manner. Better for slow dancing 🙂 .

Example sensitivity settings

When both the swatches light up, it means a disco effect is triggered!
Tweak these sliders for your desired amount of disco, wild or easy going.

Theme Section

The theme selector defaults to the Color Gradient theme.

By tapping the title row (‘Color Gradient’), the theme selector will pop up. Here you can choose different themes to use in the Disco player.

You can select one of the standard themes that come with Hue Disco by tapping on the preview in the theme selector popup.

You can also create your own theme, tap the ‘NEW THEME’ button to start creating your own theme. Checkout the Color Editor section for more info.

The Disco Brightness and Color Temperature

Hue by sliding the knobs around you can control what colors are used by the Disco Algorithmn.

Brightness controls how bright your bulbs will be at their maximum and minimum level. These settings have a lot of impact on the Hue Disco experience. Why? Because big differences between Lowest and Highest (like in the image above) will make your dancefloor go from dark to light and back a lot. This is a very nice disco experience. If you want to create a more subtile experience keep sliders close to each other. Needless to say that the higher both sliders are the brighter your dancefloor will be lit. All effects will respect both high and low settings. Except the strobe. More on strobe later.

Colorful controls how colorfull your bulbs will be. Move the slider left and colors will get more pastel. Put it all the way to the right to make it as colorfull as it can get. We like colors!

Transition Style

The transition style controls how fast the bulbs react to change in your music:

Smooth, this setting will softly transition from one to the other.

Snap, this setting will almost immediately change the effect.

Mix, this is a mixture of the above two settings.

Auto Disco

Auto Disco, the Disco panel has a new option called ‘Auto Disco’.
This will change the above mentioned settings every 4 seconds
(also auto triggers Strobe when there are a lot of changes detected in the music)
Try it out! It’s a fun mode!

STROBE

When you activate the Strobe mode by tapping the Lighting icon,
you get to see this panel.

Strobe Action Button, this button is a toggle, when you tab it again, the Strobe panel will close and the Strobe will stop.

Random Order Switch,

Disabled, Strobing will be linear over the selected bulbs,
you can set the order of the bulbs in the Bulbs screen/ tab.

Enabled, the order of strobing over the bulbs will be randomly picked.

Black light

Enabled, inbetween strobing the light will show a Black light color. Instead of completely turning off.

Speed, this controls the speed of the strobing, for the best and wild strobing effect, slide this all the way to the right.

Modes, the big buttons are predefined Strobing modes.

White, old school white strobe.

Rainbow, this mode will pick random colors

New Color, everytime you tap this button a new color will be picked.

Custom Color, this mode will let you pick a any color from a color picker dialog.

By tapping the title row (‘Color Gradient’), the theme selector will pop up. Here you can choose different themes to use in the Strobe player.

A custom theme can be created in the Color Editor.
For more info on creating your own themes checkout the Color Editor Section.

BPM

This button opens the Hue Beats panel below:

Tapping the ‘TAP BEATS‘ button multiple times, to the rhythm of the music, will calculate the current beats per minute and trigger the BPM player which pulsates the lights to the Music Rhythm.

Tapping more often will make the bpm more precise. Tap the ‘BPM’ button again to cancel this effect.
For all the other settings check the Strobe section, these settings work the same in the Beats panel.

MOODS

On the Moods Control page you can start different Moods.
A mood will animate or transition the lights continuously to a different color depending on the set time, and the mood that is chosen.

Start and stop the Mood player.

When the mood player is active, you can see a notification icon in the top status bar of your Android device.

Theme Section

By tapping the title row ‘Color Gradient’ or another theme title, the theme selector will pop up. Here you can choose different themes to use in the Mood player.

You can select one of the standard themes that come with Hue Disco by tapping on the preview in the theme selector popup.

You can also create your own theme, tap the ‘NEW THEME’ button to start creating your own theme. Checkout the Color Editor section for more info.

Mood Brightness and Color Temperature

Max brightness controls how bright your bulbs will be at their maximum.

Colorful controls how colorful or saturated your bulbs will be.Pretty straightforward, changes will be used in the next cycle! Not instantly…

Same Color

This section can make a big difference in mood experience. Choose to change all selected bulbs to the same color. Do this “Always”, all bulbs will always change to the same color. “Never”, bulbs will never have the same color. “Sometimes”, will change bulbs to different colors most of the cycles. But will sometimes change bulbs to the same color for a surprising effect. “Frequent”, will do the opposite. Change bulbs to the same color most of the cycles, but sometimes changes bulbs to a different color.

Try it! it’s fun.

Cycle Time and Transition Time

Cycle Time, this sets the time between color cycles. It can be set from 1 second to 10 minutes.
Set it low to see the changes happen quickly. Set it above 1 min and the changes will be so gentle, you will hardly notice.
Cool! Your room will change colors very smoothly.

Transition Time, by default this is set to Smooth. If you have a Cycle Time selected of for example 5 seconds, then fading to the new color with a ‘Smooth’ transition time selected will also take about 5 seconds. You can also set it to: ‘Medium, Fast & Snap’, with Snap selected, the bulbs will color almost immediately to their newly picked color.

LIGHTS

The Bulbs screen shows all your bulbs registered in your Hue Bridge. Select them by tapping their names or the switch.
Selected active bulbs can be identified by the blue icon in front of their name and the actual bulb will blink when selected to help identify it. Bulbs selected here will be used to rock your party. The ones not selected will not be touched by Hue Disco (also not turned off).
Use the select all / select none buttons as needed.

COLOR EDITOR

The Color Editor can be used to create custom user themes.
The user themes can be used in: Strobe/ Beats / Disco and Moods mode.

Add as much new colors as you like, by hitting the big ‘+’ button.

Delete colors by swiping a color-bar to the right.

Order colors by dragging the ‘=’ icon area.

Convert pictures to user color themes

By selecting the Camera icon you can convert a picture from your device to a user color theme!
Got some pictures with a nice atmosphere or amazing colors, check out this feature!

DRAWER MENU

You can access the Drawer Menu by tapping on the hamburger icon.
In the drawer menu you will find the following (extra) options: